Pastoral Poems by Nicholas Breton, Selected Poetry by George Wither, and Pastoral Poetry by William Browne (of Tavistock)

by Nicholas Breton; William Browne; George Wither

That the heart can never find him

Till it be too much diseased.

'Tis a subtle kind or spirit

Of a venom-kind of nature,

That can, like a coney-ferret,

Creep unawares upon a creature.

Never eye that can behold it,

Though it worketh first by seeing;

Nor conceit that can unfold it,